GStreamer 1.0 applications and bindings Hackfest/Sprint

Relevant GNOME/KDE/Other team

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Description

The goal of this hackfest is to kickstart the effort of porting applications to GStreamer 1.0 and fix remaining issues hindering such ports, be that bugs in binding code, missing plugins, broken pluging etc.

Agenda, goals

Port a wide variety of GStreamer applications to 0.11/1.0

Review of the 1.0 API

Make sure gobject introspection annotations are correct

Port any needed plugins from 0.10 to 0.11

Identify and fix any general GStreamer 0.11 bugs that will hinder application porting

Make sure application developers are aware of new core features and possibilities in GStreamer 1.0

Measuring your success

If we can have initial ports done of the top 10 GNOME, KDE and server applications using GStreamer that would be a great success factor for the hackfest and allow us to be confident the transition from 0.10.x to 1.0.x will be smooth and easy.

Attendants

Please add your name here if you are interested in attending even if you are not sure you will be able to, as we want to meaure general interest.. We will be offering some travel sponsorship for this event, hopefully in collaboration with the GNOME Foundation and KDE E.v.

Please add your name and project affiliation below:

Wim Taymans, GStreamer 1.0 lead designer and maintainer

Christian Schaller, Transmageddon

Sebastian Dröge, GStreamer Core

George Kiagiadakis, QtGStreamer/KDE

Philippe Normand, WebKit/Igalia

Olivier Crête, Farstream, VoIP/RTP

Tim Müller, GStreamer Core, Totem

Trever Fischer (tdfischer), phonon-gstreamer maintainer for Qt

Jonathan Matthew, Rhythmbox (interested but it's a long way from australia)

If you don't have a wiki account (and don't want to create one), you can email christian(.)schaller(at)gmail(.)com and I can add your name myself.

Venue

The venue for the hackfest will be Nido. Which is a shared office space centrally located in Malaga run by Ara and Yaiza, who happen to work for Canonical. You find more information about the venue here: http://www.nidomalaga.com/en

We will start at 10am each morning.

Costs

There is no attendance cost and the GStreamer project is not looking for any external sponsorship for the event in terms of help to cover venue rent. We might get some companies to sponsor lunches and maybe dinners specifically, so we might go around to the usual suspects to ask for that.

Current sponsors

GStreamer Project

How to get there

Inside Europe you can get cheap flights to Malaga with Ryanair and Easyjet.